Abstract: AMD's excellent upgrade paths mean the Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H motherboard will support AMD Athlon II, Phenom II processors in the socket AM3 flavours. The GA-MA785GMT-UD2H is equipped with four DDR3 memory slots that can accommodate up to 16GB of DDR3.94% Rating:

DX10 Motherboard IGP Benchmarks: Call of Juarez, Crysis

While
Call of Juarez pulls off all the classic FPS mechanisms with aplomb, it also
features interesting variations that give it the air and feel of a true Western
movie. The player has the genuine impression of being a pistol-packing hero in
an age when armed confrontation was the daily grind for many adventurers. The
Developers have incorporated a classic shooting system as well as two extra game
modes.

The
Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H continues to trail behind the other AMD 785G chipset
motherboards in this test (IGP alone). Both the Asus and MSI models tend to do a
little bit better here when compared to the micro-ATX Gigabyte motherboard,
thanks to built-in Sideport memory.

Crysis is
a science fiction first-person shooter developed by Crytek. Crysis uses
Microsoft's new API, DirectX 10 for graphics rendering, and includes the new
engine—the CryEngine 2—that is the successor to Far Cry's CryEngine. CryEngine 2
is among the first engines to use the DirectX 10 framework of Windows Vista, but
can also run using DirectX 9, both on Vista and Windows XP.

When
paired up with a decent discrete graphics card like the ASUS Geforce GTS250, Crysis is actually quite playable
at high resolutions. It's amazing how $500 computer systems can play games that
just a year or two ago would choke a $2000 gaming rig.